The U of U Faculty Show
Alexandra Karl says the U of U Faculty show at the UMFA opened with a bang.
Behind the Proscenium: Georges Rouault’s Circus Comes to Town
A review of Georges Rouault’s Cique de l’Etoile Filante suite of prints, now on exhibit at the UMFA.
Faces
“All of the foreheads, and in some cases even the chins, fall off the edge of the paper creating a too-tight cropping that is reminiscent of amateur photography. The portraits, small as they are, give the impression of expanding beyond the edges of the paper. The viewer is […]
Gretchen Dietrich
“I really like stuff,” Gretchen Dietrich tells me, her emphasis on the last word suggesting an orthographic marker somewhere between italics and ALLCAPS. “And I like order.” We are seated at a small round table in Dietrich’s office on the top floor of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Her […]
Adriana Lara
Take the best line from each of the ten best poems and print them on this page. They may produce ten splendid images in our minds as we read them, but they will not become a poem, and if they do, it will not have anything like the […]
UMFA’s new Director of Development
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) recently announced that Lisa A. Arnette has assumed the position of Director of Development and External Relations at the museum. From 1998 to 2003, Arnette served as a development officer at the Utah Museum of Natural History (UMNH) on the University […]
A Vietnamese Yes We Can: Changing Identities at the UMFA
As I visited the Utah Museum of Fine Arts recently, there to see the exhibit of art from the 1960’s from the museum’s permanent collection (see our blog), I came across the entrance to Changing Identities: Recent Works by Women Artists from Vietnam, an exhibit filled with powerful images that stunned me […]
Visual Reversal
Exhibition Review: Salt Lake Visual Reversal The Later Works of William Utermohlen by Sheryl Gillilan Portraits from the Mind: The Later Works of William Utermohlen 1995-2000, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, is a haunting visual depiction of a talented artist’s descent into the hell of Alzheimer’s […]
An Innermost Journey The Paintings of Shauna Cook Clinger at the UMFA
Exhibition Review: Salt Lake An Innermost Journey The Paintings of Shauna Cook Clinger at the UMFA by Geoff Wichert An Innermost Journey: The Art of Shauna Cook Clinger, in the main gallery at the UMFA through February 15, 2009, raises old questions about the relative importance of content […]
Organization Spotlight: Salt Lake The UMFA’s Young Benefactors
Organization Spotlight: Salt Lake The UMFA’s Young Benefactors While organizations that choose for titles expressing youth or contemporaneity benefit from the energy evoked by their name, time has a way of catching up to them and complicating their brand. When the Museum of Modern Art in New York […]
The UMFA’s Young Benefactors
Organization Spotlight: Salt Lake The UMFA’s Young Benefactors While organizations that choose for titles expressing youth or contemporaneity benefit from the energy evoked by their name, time has a way of catching up to them and complicating their brand. When the Museum of Modern Art in New York […]
Living in a Material Word: A Tapestry of Fiber Art
by Kindra Fehr One fascinating aspect of Contemporary art has been its interest in expanding the canon of materials used in its creation. Moving beyond traditional painting, drawing and sculpture, we are beginning to see a wide, essentially endless, array of sources. This opening of the material canon has […]